Did you play Austin Powers In Goldmember? If you played FOTR AND AP3, chances are slim that you have TT, but it you didn't play AP3, you may get TT. Depends - are you in a 50-50 product split situation, or a 75-25, 60-40?? Details would help. Ultimately, it will go to whomever NL allocates it to.
 

Does anyone know New Line Cinema's planned release schedule from mid summer through fall and into the holiday season? If I know the order of releases, then I can tell whether the Carmike would get booked for the "Two Towers" or not.

Sometimes exceptions can be made in the allocation process. Hopefully that would come into play since the Carmike theater is the only one in my area with digital sound on all screens and a couple theaters built to THX specs. The opposing theater is crappy on show quality. I heard a couple branch office guys from Paramount visited Lawton to investigate why "K-19: The Widdowmaker" did so poorly when they booked it in the old, crappy Wallace Theaters Cache 8. They were appalled by what they saw and will likely book no more product in that theater. I'm just hoping Wallace closes the place before the holiday season, that way the Carmike theater would get the next LOTR film as well as the next Harry Potter installment.
 

8/23 Simone
10/11 Knockaround Guys
11/22 The Friday After Next
12/18 The Two Towers

They also are releasing "Invincible" on their Fine Line label on 9/20 if that makes a difference.
 

As far as The Two Towers is concerned, Ill probably see it at the Chinese in Hollywood
 

As far as product spliting, that also used to happen here in Hawaii. There were only two major theatre chains and both were locally owned.
The larger one, Consolidated Amusement Company would later be bought out by Los Angeles based, Pacific Theatres. The other chain, Royal Theatres is no longer in business. Up until the mid fifties, Consolidated had first run rights to all of the major studios pictures except Republic. For some reason, Royal picked up first run rights to all Paramount Pitures in 1954 with "ELEPHANT WALK" and all of Walt Disney's pictures in 1957 with "OLD YELLER". They also picked up first run rights to all Universal-International Pictures around 1958 (Universal Pictures was known by that name at the time). Royal also used to split United Artist first run rights with Consolidated. With the exception of Universal Pictures, Royal Theatres retained their first run rights with Republic until the studio folded and with Paramount, Disney and in part with United Artist up until they went out of business around 1982.

-Claude

I hope you are right about the 50/50 split thing. Because if the normal back and forth thing holds, then the Carmike in my town would lose out on the "Two Towers". They didn't get "Goldmember" but got the next release, "Simone." The flip flop on the next three releases would put the LOTR film in a really terrible dump of a theater. I won't pay money, much less even watch a film for free, in that Wallace Theater's location. Many others in Lawton will not either. The place needs to be shut down. Hopefully, more branch office managers like the guys from Paramount will investigate and then not book anymore product there due to the place being so run down. Then that would force the old eight plex to close. I'm just sick and tired of it being nothing more than a thorn-in-the-side spoiler to the Carmike 8, a theater that should be getting twice the business or more than it is getting thanks to this allocation nonsense.
 

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Still, I don't know the full terms of New Line's allocation contract in Lawton and whether a 50/50 split even applies. If that contract has "The Two Towers" bound for the old cruddy theater then there may be little I can do.
 

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